6 2A - Tuesday, January 19, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers I WEDNESDAY: PrfssrPrfs' Before You Were Here THURSDAY: FRIDAY: Campus Clubs Photos of the Week RALLYING FOR A CAUSE A great communicator Communication Studies Prof. Susan Douglas not only studies the mass media; she's a part of it. After her 1994 hook, "Where the Girls Are: Grow- ing Up Female with the Mass Media," became a hit, Doug- las found herself as a guest on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." "You're met at the airport in Chicago by this giant limo, and swept off to a hotel where you have a big fancy room," she said of her appearance on the show. After the show, Douglas even got to go shopping with famous television personal- ity Barbara Billingsley, who played June Cleaver on the sitcom, "Leave it to Beaver." "I went shopping with June Cleaver, which was a total hoot!" she said. Douglas - an expert in the portrayal of gender roles in the media - started teaching in the University's Depart- ment of Communication Studies in 1996, but she didn't always want to be a profes- Douglas said when she was a teenager she never believed a woman could teach at a level above high school. "The women's movement opened up so many doors for my generation," she said. Douglas said she first became interested in the mass media during her time in graduate school at Brown University, though she said she "hardly watched televi- sion at all" during her under- graduate years. But with a less social envi- ronment in graduate school, Douglas found herself sitting around the T.V. more often and was inspired to study what she saw. "For me it was like picking up a rock," she said. Douglas studies many aspects of the mass media, ranging from the history of broadcasting to her current topic of interest, celebrity cul- cure. She said though many think celebrity culture isn't a serious topic, there is much to be gleaned from studying it. 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